I can't believe the amount of stupidity in the comment section people would rather critisize and tell someone they can't accomplish something rather than do anything about the problem.! What this man is is doing is not only extremely practical for all developing nations but gives the youth a hope to look forward to! WELL DONE SIR
I'm reading all these comments from people who a) Have never lived in Africa or b) Have never even been to Africa. Having been born, raised and educated in the Free South Africa I completely agree with this man. Leaders make or break a country and it takes good leaders to help a country move forward. Botswana is a great example of what a great leader can do while Zimbabwe is an example of what happens when a leader goes rogue.
but what you fail to understand is that alot of great African leaders who could have made big changes where all murdered and the leaders choosen by western government are ineffective at least thats whay some post are saying reasearch your self assassinated african leaders find out
I don’t fit into either of those categories. Without reading EVERY single comment, I think that what is left out is the “why” and sometimes the “how” that exists behind some of the events that discussed in this talk. The context is important. This oversimplification is short-sighted. I understand the optimism and “what-to-do-now” approach. However, he is speaking about something that has no precedent, at least for several a few hundred years.
@@ing4gi because rwanda is still a developing country, however the statistics don't lie when it says rwanda is one of the fastest growing. Economiss on the planet.
Great man, we fled Ghana at about the same time for the same reason, I can certainly understand this man and where he comes from, my father had to hide for 3 years in Ghana because he could not leave the country, while me my sister and my mother waited for him in Belgium. I know exactly what he's talking about, but I also lived my entire life in Europe now and I know for a fact that emulating European or any other so called advanced countries in the world is a mistake, their systems are failing and are not sustainable, we need forward thinking people who will not just look for the short but most importantly to the long term, people who are willing to challenge the establishment that has brought the planet almost to the brink of extinction.
Fred Swaniker, am a big fun and one of the leaders being cultivated in the ALX program. 8 years from when this Video was uploaded and indeed Fred is walking the talk.
Fred as an African I share your views. I wish our leaders would be like you. When I see how my country is now I want to vomit and I lost hope in my South African leaders.
I loved the talk but if you look at South Africa now our 4th generation leader is Jacob Zuma who has been embroiled in corruption scandal after corruption scandal... The work you're doing is amazing, I would love to help out in which ever way that I can. Education is the only sustainable solution to the majority of our African problems
It’s not only our leaders we as a people are corrupt in culture after we adopted western systems into our societies that we didn’t and still don’t understand we developed a culture of corruption.
Even before it is 5.25, it is already the best speech I have watched on Ted so far. Best example what good education can do. The auditorium should have been fully packed with people for the topic is very important. Africans, wake up and choose good leaders. There is no point always blaming the Western countries.
I enjoyed this talk. I had a chance to live in Tanzania, Africa, as a Peace Corps Volunteer less than two years ago. Tanzania is a very poor country, but it is culturally rich, and more important, it is peaceful. Since it's independence in 1961, Tanzania's first President, Julius Nyerere, peacefully orchestrated the countries' independence from England. He came from humble roots as a primary school teacher, but he was a well educated man who was friends with the President who started the Peace Corps, John Kennedy. Tanzania took a socialist route to development, as some other countries- and African culture is naturally socialist to some degree. He united the country with one language. Now Tanzania is developing more and more, becoming more democratic, more entrepreneurial. There are still problems and challenges to be sure, but Tanzania is a good model for the rest of the continent
Not really. Nyerere was also the guy responsible for turning Tanzania from a top food-exporter to the world's #1 foreign-aid recipient of the day due to his failed forced collectivization policies.
This talk has brought so much hope in my life and i must admit that everything he has said is true. The title attracts and it's not at all misleading to me.
Oooh! Woow woow. This gent is speaking sense into my head; How if feel and hope that such minds could have mentored and natured. We need this kind of brave and brilliant minds!
It seems everybody argues on how we got into the problems we face in Africa but nobody is talking of ways of solving this problem. Yes, identifying the root cause of how an issue started is great at preventing future failures but must we only focus on that every time we debate? What does that achieve? That for one is a prime reason things aren't improving in Africa. I for one think agriculture is our way out. Micro-financing (obtained from diasporan expendable income) , farming education (networking farmers with experienced locals or experts). All this and more relies on finding people with the same passion, same goal & honesty. There are good people out there, it's just that the capitalist system is turning everyone into selfish, greedy capitalists. We need to change our way of approaching problems, I propose a start small, contribute within your means, live simple, network, educate & above all, do everything for the better good of man!
I believe this too. Africa tries to live like the west, I don’t blame them we were colonized after all, but it’s like we have done this since the 60’s and we haven’t gotten anywhere. Capitalism and the struggle for power has killed Africa, so much division. Let’s stick to what we know best and then commodity it.
This is a very interesting and invigorating concept. One major challenge is the fact that there is a business and political elite who are really pushing to keep Africa as broken and dysfunctional as possible, because this in effect is what keeps them in power.
Great message to the younger generations of Africa We need change in our continent Africa,,,,, Fred Swankier you're doing a good job... Your words are so inspiring Be blessed
Fred is such a great guy-never met him, but hopefully someday. I also went through coups d'etats in my native Chad. I had the opportunity to live many years in the United States. Fortunately, I did go back to Chad a couple of times for many years. It was a 10 year span in Chad that I fell in love with Africa. Just like Fred, I am determined and focused on developing opportunities for emerging African leaderships.
Here is the thing and it has been true trough all ages and all regions of the world: Young men without opportunity and occupation will start wars, commit violence and crime and are, generally speaking, a disaster for any country in any age of history. If you want stability in a region, prosperity and peace - you need to give these young men opportunity, education and occupation.
This is so good. this is why i started to enroll young students to get trained in leadership skills. I like what Mr Swaniker does to the people of Africa. hHe will leave behind a good legence Andrew
Extraordinaire discours qui je pense devrait être partager au maximum. Tout est dit ou presque, la vision amorcée par la première génération à été court-circuité par des dirigeants qui ont pensé d'abord à eux au détriment de l''intérêt général. Conséquence nous n'avons pas réussi à bâtir une Afrique forte et prospère. Mais bien heureusement, par le mouvement irréversible de l'histoire, une nouvelle génération, constitué pour la plupart de jeune issus de classe défavorisé, a compris la mission qu'est la notre aujourd'hui, celle de reconstruire cette Afrique tant décriée en commençant par la transformation de nos mentalités.
Very well said Frank. The truth can be a very uncomfortable place, but until we face the real issue we'll not solve the desperate state of Africa. It is poor, weak, corrupt leadership which is holding Africa back, when we fix this then the continent will be on a fast-track to prosperity.
There is a man with a vision. What call to rise up and join our fellow Africans to do something more. We are capable and should do more to creating a better Africa even if the odds look scary.
I plan to bring my software company to Africa. Im African. American. Here is a note, there will be people that criticize, there will be people that watch, then there will be people that do. People that do dont mind for the other two😁
L'orateur est tout seulement incroyable. Je suis inspirée et je crois intimement en cette 4 génération et qu'on peut reconstruire en suivant les bon l'exemple de ceux qui nous on précédent et qui le font encore.
One thing I can take out of this is that part of the charge of Black Excellence means to call out each other's bullshit and mediocrity. We need to rise as Africans for Africa. No room for corruption, nepotism or comprising moral duty to serve each other well.
Everything else aside, leadership is the single most important factor to a progressive society. However, what I know is that, there are many good leaders but their efforts are most of the times sabotaged for political and personal reasons. Unless political and personal sabotage stops, good leaders will continue to fail in building strong institutions. .
Especially by the west! What they hate to see is a leader who is patriotic! They will start calling that leader a dictator! Ghadaffi had good intentions for Libya and Africa! They killed him! Most of our leaders now are weak ! Puppets at best! They make it easier for these white rogues to rip us off! But there’s time for everything!
At 5:44 : I didn't get the names if you could please give them out again here along with the others you named also, so I can look them up, it would be great and at 7:26 the leaders should take it easy on the automation plan if that is what they have that in mind, working the land is still the best way to keep people happy and employed!.. It always has been!.. God bless you for sharing, thank-you!
I do believe that to be part of this generation is a great chance, and I'm ready to be more educated for transforming Africa and to make it a better continent world without end.
Africa is so big and many countries have their personalized issues. Like Nelson Mandela was a 'first generation resident' in South Africa because he encouraged freedom and equality in South Africa. The issues Africa faces are so complex but have the potential to be overcome which is the thesis
Unfortunately leadership usually comes out of something else and often being educated. Africa needs doctors who can lead, engineers who can lead and business people who can lead. I agree with Frank on generation 4 they are better educated and don’t have the hang ups of generation 2 and 3... the problem is many on these still hang onto power.
Je suis tout a fait d’accord avec vous que la quatrième génération à un grand défit à relever pour construire, réconcilier, et bâtir une Afrique libre et indépendant pour le bien être de tout le monde. Nous en avons y des hommes forts, corrompus et malhonnêtes de la première génération à nos jours qui continuent toujours avec leurs systèmes. ils ont réclames l’indépendance de l’Afrique pour devenir les nouveaux colonisateurs sans conscience, ni de pitié au peuple qui continu toujours de demander la liberté. l'espoir est permis avec la quatrième jeune génération consciente, des vrais leaders pourront inverser la tendance .
merci, pour cette motivation. Que les africains comprennent que c est a eux de développer leur continent et cela ne peut se faire que par un changement de mentalité , en devenant des leader
Africa is too rich in resources every economic power is always going to be after it. China, India the Europe, America. You'll find them all helping themselves to the farmland, gold, diamonds ect. That's the real issue, it's not in the worlds interest to make Africa self sustainable.
One needs the expertise of outsiders but laws need to introduced which allow foreign companies to come to Africa but need to, by law, produce the finished product locally aswell. Africa complains about colonialists but there is a new colonialist that they are allowing in & that is China. One of China's biggest exports is people & that is already happening!
Nice talk. Watching from Uganda where we have been stuck in generation 3 as our leader has for the past 40 years killed all institutions and refused to leave power, changed the constitution so many times and unfortunately Kagame is the same as our leader. Sheer despots.
It is a shame that instead of discussing the great potential this idea has, we are talking about something as superficial as race. Must every video of an African discussing the political dynamics at play in Africa bring up race?? Please grow up
“Race” is far from superficial. If it was superficial, nations and dynasties would not have been built on the leveraging the perceived differences race presents.
i come form Mozambique, educated in Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa. My encounters with the West have only been through books, media and various westerners that i have seen around these parts of Africa. needless to say i have not been out of Africa. i cannot tell for sure what is really wrong with Africa. What i can say for sure is that most people that talk about Africa feel that Africans must change to prosperity. Prosperity through education and development that is of the standards of the West. This is asking Africans to open more they already have. thus far, Africans need to look inward and stop comparing themselves to Europe or any other part of the world. President Robert Mugabe realised this in the late 90s. people suggest he destroyed that country. how so when majority of the people did not have land and at the same time those that were asked to share the land did not want to do so claiming "property rights" - a truly foreign concept to the native Zimbabwean. Mugabe's move was the first of many that should come in the future when leaders will attempt to give their people a voice and direction at the sacrifice of pettiness. A house can be built from ruins but a home cannot. Stop embarrassing yourselves people already think that Africa and Africans are "backward" and cannot "lead themselves". Ironically even a group of chimpanzees can better organise themselves and protect the jungle. no kidding! i saw it on National Geographic.
"Mindset". This is what africans and we mozambicans need, Benedito. 2 examples strike: 1. I worked as a medical doctor in Niassa Province and i found a strategy to efficiently and quickly screen tuberculosis patients in the communities. My district became, overnight, the best in this aspect. Interestingly enough, the idea needed no money to function properly. Nobody seemed to be interested to spread the idea throughout the country. And no magazine in Mozambique was interested to publish my articles about it. You know what? My work is being published by a medical journal in the UK, now that i live in Switzerland. 2. Norway discovered huge amounts of oil on it's shores in the 60's. It invested massively in public services. Many argue Norway is probably the richest country in this planet today. Nigeria discovered vast amounts of oil on it's shores in the...yes, you guessed it right, the 60's. It invested massively in corruption.
I would ask how long Mr Mandela would have lasted in jail in many of the black run African countries. Mugabwe did not destroy Zimbabwe on his own, he had a lot of help, as did Amin, Bogasa, Mengistu etc.
Anybody reading this, you dont need to join an academy to be successful, keep that in mind! One thing you must always fight for is clarity of mind and there are many assaults with ELF waves on the population at the moment, we must unite and fight these mind control frequencies which can transmit feelings, voices etc.. that interfer with your own! Very alarming!
Je suis d'accord avec Fred...L'AFRIQUE a tout pour réussir et être la puissance mondiale.La jeune africaine déborde d'idées nouvelles et notre terre est très riche......
Great idea, Afrikans need to focus thier education more on practicals, making things for themselves, put clever minds to work on practicals, smart brains in food production/farming ,building more water bodies, harnessing the rivers better, making our own medicines, building our own machineary and transport net works rail and roads.we need more plumbers to build more sewage systems so cholera/ decentry stops, At the moment AFRIKA has far too many PHD holders in academics who have brought nothing but more corruption because they want to be paid for their certificates not what they can produce
That generation also needs to successfully give the finger to western nation (especially France), and continue relations with Oceanic,South American and Asian nations.
This guy made lots of valid points and at the same time, over simplified Africa's leadership problems and solutions. There're lots of intricacies and external influences. The fabric of the socio-cultural and political system was torn apart by slavery, missionary and colonization. It will take lot more that simplistic talks like this to fix the continent.
anything and everything is possible one needs to know problem, a vision to fix it, handwork to back it, and expecting no results doing work unconditionally for sake of god, creating a better world. so he will be proud of his sons. humanity has limitless potential do work for sake of god... this is key.
One the first things that should happen is to start educating Africans to curtail the size of African families. The population is growing faster than the economies can handle this growth & with new technologies, like Artificial Intelligence, the amount jobs will grow at a much slower rate & indeed change the way industries etc work. The power of the trade union must be brought under control & not hold economies to ransom. The biggest problem that I believe Africa needs to overcome is African Tribalism & corruption. It is all very well creating great leaders but how do they exercise the control when voters are brain washed through poor education. He used Nelson Mandela as a great leader but just look at what has & is happening in South Africa. I expect to be shouted down but leaders need educated people to lead & to follow that leader. The problem in Africa is greater than just creating good leaders although good leaders are needed!
I believe it's something in a people's genetic code. Africa and India have had no end of funding, help, infrastructure and aid from the west. Vietnam, Hong Kong and Singapore got 0.01% of that help and ran with it. Why is it that only Asians can progress with a helping hand and not self-destruct? Is must be genetic.
Why do you always go around this videos and leave racist commment the same always.. your bullshit ive seen in many videos have been refuted over and over stop spamming!!
Its really baffling how ignorant a lot of people in the west are with respect to how the system works. it benefits the west more, to maintain Africa in this state, all the help you are talking about is simply a smoke screen, to fool the western population that all is done to help Africa. If the west really wants to help it should interfering in the continents affairs.
***** "Apparently" the avg IQ of Africans TODAY is 82 and for A.Americans it's 85..but how your raised up, education and sleep as well as genetics can effect IQ.Someone can do a few different IQ tests and get very different results in each one. My ethnic background is Nigerian, but born in the UK I believe IQ is in the 105-120 . Heard of the African model minority?
live1234561 the height of stupidity is to go on about a dumb iq test that was created by whites. and the african model minority myth is is dumb as the asian one. you have problems.
iwasborntobefly In America the model minority are now Asians but for a brief time they were African immigrants and their children..how is it a myth if there many statics to prove it. Furthermore where did I say I am going on about how the IQ was made by the whites.
A leadership is beyond management. A leader of course does what a manager does, but thinks beyond the repetitive work that a manager does. A leader has a vision - an ability to think through time what a situation or country ought to be. Unfortunately, Africa lacks those people who have the future of Africa at heart. Many African presidents cannot be leaders, because thy are not elected by the people. They are imposed unto the masses through senseless coup d'états or through fraudulent elections .
The west ruined Africa and the middle east it's sad but true. Which is why we need to help, in a manner that is respectful of African main & middle eastern nations sovereignty rather than using our military to "help"
Zarbain sounds like a Victorian era explorer. We ruined Africa and the middle east by drawing the lines the way we did without regards to the ethnic conflicts of past.
I can't believe the amount of stupidity in the comment section people would rather critisize and tell someone they can't accomplish something rather than do anything about the problem.! What this man is is doing is not only extremely practical for all developing nations but gives the youth a hope to look forward to!
WELL DONE SIR
Well said. Let's focus on solving the problem.
Amen
First they oppose. Then they ridicule. Finally they praise.
Amazing words
I agree with Mr Fred for the creation of African institutions that will identify and develop leaders in a systematic and rational way
This is the most inspiring lecture I have ever seen in my life. As an african it makes me so proud and excited for the future.
I'm reading all these comments from people who a) Have never lived in Africa or b) Have never even been to Africa. Having been born, raised and educated in the Free South Africa I completely agree with this man. Leaders make or break a country and it takes good leaders to help a country move forward. Botswana is a great example of what a great leader can do while Zimbabwe is an example of what happens when a leader goes rogue.
but what you fail to understand is that alot of great African leaders who could have made big changes where all murdered and the leaders choosen by western government are ineffective at least thats whay some post are saying reasearch your self assassinated african leaders find out
I don’t fit into either of those categories.
Without reading EVERY single comment, I think that what is left out is the “why” and sometimes the “how” that exists behind some of the events that discussed in this talk.
The context is important. This oversimplification is short-sighted.
I understand the optimism and “what-to-do-now” approach. However, he is speaking about something that has no precedent, at least for several a few hundred years.
Many have eyes yet they cannot see !!!!
Yes, indeed. Rwanda's Paul Kagame is by no means perfect. However, he is one of Africa's best leaders in the last 15 years. Proud of my president.
Areas he's not perfect please?
@@davidoluwadare2787 freedom of speech and democracy. Economics are his thing, but 50% of Rwanda is still poor.
Oh come on! What did he do for Zimbabwe?
Paul Kagame is the best leader in Africa. West will go after him and will try to destroy your country using triblism.
@@ing4gi because rwanda is still a developing country, however the statistics don't lie when it says rwanda is one of the fastest growing. Economiss on the planet.
Great man, we fled Ghana at about the same time for the same reason, I can certainly understand this man and where he comes from, my father had to hide for 3 years in Ghana because he could not leave the country, while me my sister and my mother waited for him in Belgium. I know exactly what he's talking about, but I also lived my entire life in Europe now and I know for a fact that emulating European or any other so called advanced countries in the world is a mistake, their systems are failing and are not sustainable, we need forward thinking people who will not just look for the short but most importantly to the long term, people who are willing to challenge the establishment that has brought the planet almost to the brink of extinction.
Fred Swaniker, am a big fun and one of the leaders being cultivated in the ALX program. 8 years from when this Video was uploaded and indeed Fred is walking the talk.
Fred as an African I share your views. I wish our leaders would be like you. When I see how my country is now I want to vomit and I lost hope in my South African leaders.
I loved the talk but if you look at South Africa now our 4th generation leader is Jacob Zuma who has been embroiled in corruption scandal after corruption scandal... The work you're doing is amazing, I would love to help out in which ever way that I can. Education is the only sustainable solution to the majority of our African problems
Hmmm. Why education?
What about god and education?
Bothhh
Ahhh
a l Farces don't accomplish anything.
The right education/dedication, that promotes life.
It’s not only our leaders we as a people are corrupt in culture after we adopted western systems into our societies that we didn’t and still don’t understand we developed a culture of corruption.
What you said about education, I totally agree.
Even before it is 5.25, it is already the best speech I have watched on Ted so far. Best example what good education can do. The auditorium should have been fully packed with people for the topic is very important. Africans, wake up and choose good leaders. There is no point always blaming the Western countries.
I enjoyed this talk. I had a chance to live in Tanzania, Africa, as a Peace Corps Volunteer less than two years ago. Tanzania is a very poor country, but it is culturally rich, and more important, it is peaceful. Since it's independence in 1961, Tanzania's first President, Julius Nyerere, peacefully orchestrated the countries' independence from England. He came from humble roots as a primary school teacher, but he was a well educated man who was friends with the President who started the Peace Corps, John Kennedy. Tanzania took a socialist route to development, as some other countries- and African culture is naturally socialist to some degree. He united the country with one language. Now Tanzania is developing more and more, becoming more democratic, more entrepreneurial. There are still problems and challenges to be sure, but Tanzania is a good model for the rest of the continent
That's just awesome. It's great that you volunteered to help. We need more people like you.
Not really. Nyerere was also the guy responsible for turning Tanzania from a top food-exporter to the world's #1 foreign-aid recipient of the day due to his failed forced collectivization policies.
This talk has brought so much hope in my life and i must admit that everything he has said is true. The title attracts and it's not at all misleading to me.
Oooh! Woow woow. This gent is speaking sense into my head;
How if feel and hope that such minds could have mentored and natured. We need this kind of brave and brilliant minds!
It seems everybody argues on how we got into the problems we face in Africa but nobody is talking of ways of solving this problem. Yes, identifying the root cause of how an issue started is great at preventing future failures but must we only focus on that every time we debate? What does that achieve?
That for one is a prime reason things aren't improving in Africa.
I for one think agriculture is our way out. Micro-financing (obtained from diasporan expendable income) , farming education (networking farmers with experienced locals or experts). All this and more relies on finding people with the same passion, same goal & honesty. There are good people out there, it's just that the capitalist system is turning everyone into selfish, greedy capitalists.
We need to change our way of approaching problems, I propose a start small, contribute within your means, live simple, network, educate & above all, do everything for the better good of man!
tapiwakay -You Said it Right
I believe this too. Africa tries to live like the west, I don’t blame them we were colonized after all, but it’s like we have done this since the 60’s and we haven’t gotten anywhere.
Capitalism and the struggle for power has killed Africa, so much division.
Let’s stick to what we know best and then commodity it.
This is a very interesting and invigorating concept. One major challenge is the fact that there is a business and political elite who are really pushing to keep Africa as broken and dysfunctional as possible, because this in effect is what keeps them in power.
Great message to the younger generations of Africa
We need change in our continent Africa,,,,, Fred Swankier you're doing a good job... Your words are so inspiring
Be blessed
Fred is such a great guy-never met him, but hopefully someday. I also went through coups d'etats in my native Chad. I had the opportunity to live many years in the United States. Fortunately, I did go back to Chad a couple of times for many years. It was a 10 year span in Chad that I fell in love with Africa. Just like Fred, I am determined and focused on developing opportunities for emerging African leaderships.
Here is the thing and it has been true trough all ages and all regions of the world: Young men without opportunity and occupation will start wars, commit violence and crime and are, generally speaking, a disaster for any country in any age of history. If you want stability in a region, prosperity and peace - you need to give these young men opportunity, education and occupation.
This is so good. this is why i started to enroll young students to get trained in leadership skills. I like what Mr Swaniker does to the people of Africa. hHe will leave behind a good legence
Andrew
Extraordinaire discours qui je pense devrait être partager au maximum. Tout est dit ou presque, la vision amorcée par la première génération à été court-circuité par des dirigeants qui ont pensé d'abord à eux au détriment de l''intérêt général. Conséquence nous n'avons pas réussi à bâtir une Afrique forte et prospère. Mais bien heureusement, par le mouvement irréversible de l'histoire, une nouvelle génération, constitué pour la plupart de jeune issus de classe défavorisé, a compris la mission qu'est la notre aujourd'hui, celle de reconstruire cette Afrique tant décriée en commençant par la transformation de nos mentalités.
Very well said Frank. The truth can be a very uncomfortable place, but until we face the real issue we'll not solve the desperate state of Africa. It is poor, weak, corrupt leadership which is holding Africa back, when we fix this then the continent will be on a fast-track to prosperity.
This is a great talk! The universities are ... just wow, awesome man.
There is a man with a vision.
What call to rise up and join our fellow Africans to do something more.
We are capable and should do more to creating a better Africa even if the odds look scary.
I love this guy. And he is giving us a lesson on African governance that we in the west desperately need.
Thank you brother. I believe Africa has started turning back into a great paradise. Time and team work is our asset. Thanks again
I plan to bring my software company to Africa. Im African. American. Here is a note, there will be people that criticize, there will be people that watch, then there will be people that do. People that do dont mind for the other two😁
It's a real good speech; full of teachings. I would like to be formed to belong to this fourth generation of African Leaders
The speaker is just amazing
I'm inspired. I firmly believe in this fourth generation of African leaders....
More power to you ...
L'orateur est tout seulement incroyable. Je suis inspirée et je crois intimement en cette 4 génération et qu'on peut reconstruire en suivant les bon l'exemple de ceux qui nous on précédent et qui le font encore.
One thing I can take out of this is that part of the charge of Black Excellence means to call out each other's bullshit and mediocrity. We need to rise as Africans for Africa. No room for corruption, nepotism or comprising moral duty to serve each other well.
Simply superb. Whole world needs people like you indeed.
Je suis épaté par la capacité de l'orateur , très posé, calme et il a la maitrise de son domaine. Force à vous pour ce combat.
Everything else aside, leadership is the single most important factor to a progressive society. However, what I know is that, there are many good leaders but their efforts are most of the times sabotaged for political and personal reasons. Unless political and personal sabotage stops, good leaders will continue to fail in building strong institutions. .
Especially by the west! What they hate to see is a leader who is patriotic! They will start calling that leader a dictator! Ghadaffi had good intentions for Libya and Africa! They killed him! Most of our leaders now are weak ! Puppets at best! They make it easier for these white rogues to rip us off! But there’s time for everything!
This is a very smart guy, third world countries need more people like him
They have people like him
Ingenuity and dexterity. A young man of vision.
An inspirational talk. More power to you.
Well said and put my brother!! Blessing to mama Africa and power to the movement to rebuild Africa.. ONE LOVE TO ALL MY AFRICA PEOPLE
Excellent talk by this young man. The historical perspective to remedies for the future was quite helpful.
Great talking. Inspiring leadership in Africa. I'm African and I'm inspired. Thanks
LOVE THIS!
Super message! Je partage entièrement votre avis M. TED. Félicitations à vous !
the problem is most talented, educated young Africans dream of escaping to the US and Europe.
At 5:44 : I didn't get the names if you could please give them out again here along with the others you named also, so I can look them up, it would be great and at 7:26 the leaders should take it easy on the automation plan if that is what they have that in mind, working the land is still the best way to keep people happy and employed!.. It always has been!.. God bless you for sharing, thank-you!
Waaaw. Accurate assessment on African Problems and Leadership and good projections for the afuture. Well done Brother.
A leader and her vision ... we cannot dissociate that... stay strong and big up my brother...
Très beau développement. Nous ferons tous partie de cette 4eme génération et nous allons révolutionner cette Afrique
here here!
I do believe that to be part of this generation is a great chance, and I'm ready to be more educated for transforming Africa and to make it a better continent world without end.
Africa is so big and many countries have their personalized issues. Like Nelson Mandela was a 'first generation resident' in South Africa because he encouraged freedom and equality in South Africa. The issues Africa faces are so complex but have the potential to be overcome which is the thesis
Thank you for this message great work Africa 🇿🇦💯 for Africa
Finally, someone with sense, who doesn't waste time complaining about days past. Good job sir. God bless you!
Thank you! Mr. Fred Swaniker
With all due respect to the speaker my country of Cameroon is still stuck with a 2nd generation president....
You can make it better
Powerful speech, full of truth and wiseness .
Unfortunately leadership usually comes out of something else and often being educated. Africa needs doctors who can lead, engineers who can lead and business people who can lead. I agree with Frank on generation 4 they are better educated and don’t have the hang ups of generation 2 and 3... the problem is many on these still hang onto power.
J’ai fortement aimé la vision partagée et je suis totalement d’accord avec.
Just amazing vision Fred!
Je suis tout a fait d’accord avec vous que la quatrième génération à un grand défit à relever pour construire, réconcilier, et bâtir une Afrique libre et indépendant pour le bien être de tout le monde. Nous en avons y des hommes forts, corrompus et malhonnêtes de la première génération à nos jours qui continuent toujours avec leurs systèmes. ils ont réclames l’indépendance de l’Afrique pour devenir les nouveaux colonisateurs sans conscience, ni de pitié au peuple qui continu toujours de demander la liberté.
l'espoir est permis avec la quatrième jeune génération consciente, des vrais leaders pourront inverser la tendance .
This is inspiring and still gold to this day.
merci, pour cette motivation. Que les africains comprennent que c est a eux de développer leur continent et cela ne peut se faire que par un changement de mentalité , en devenant des leader
Africa is too rich in resources every economic power is always going to be after it. China, India the Europe, America. You'll find them all helping themselves to the farmland, gold, diamonds ect. That's the real issue, it's not in the worlds interest to make Africa self sustainable.
One needs the expertise of outsiders but laws need to introduced which allow foreign companies to come to Africa but need to, by law, produce the finished product locally aswell. Africa complains about colonialists but there is a new colonialist that they are allowing in & that is China. One of China's biggest exports is people & that is already happening!
Too rich in resources, but too poor in brains and skills.
We shall be the generation that fixes it
I love you friend! Big respect. I pray that God will confirm me to come to Africa and meet you...help you if I can.
Merci pour votre combat
Nice talk. Watching from Uganda where we have been stuck in generation 3 as our leader has for the past 40 years killed all institutions and refused to leave power, changed the constitution so many times and unfortunately Kagame is the same as our leader. Sheer despots.
I'm with you...
I agree with Mr Fred for the creation of African institutions that will identify and develop leaders in a systematic and rational way
Great vision and with the right partnerships this vision can become a reality!
It is a shame that instead of discussing the great potential this idea has, we are talking about something as superficial as race.
Must every video of an African discussing the political dynamics at play in Africa bring up race??
Please grow up
Race play a part in this. You grow up
“Race” is far from superficial. If it was superficial, nations and dynasties would not have been built on the leveraging the perceived differences race presents.
Omar W In a perfect world...
You’re right, it’s really childish.
louder omar...louder for the people at the back..
I love you Sir.
I am joining ALU.
Great talk, interested to know how these universities develop.
i come form Mozambique, educated in Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa. My encounters with the West have only been through books, media and various westerners that i have seen around these parts of Africa. needless to say i have not been out of Africa. i cannot tell for sure what is really wrong with Africa. What i can say for sure is that most people that talk about Africa feel that Africans must change to prosperity. Prosperity through education and development that is of the standards of the West. This is asking Africans to open more they already have. thus far, Africans need to look inward and stop comparing themselves to Europe or any other part of the world. President Robert Mugabe realised this in the late 90s. people suggest he destroyed that country. how so when majority of the people did not have land and at the same time those that were asked to share the land did not want to do so claiming "property rights" - a truly foreign concept to the native Zimbabwean. Mugabe's move was the first of many that should come in the future when leaders will attempt to give their people a voice and direction at the sacrifice of pettiness. A house can be built from ruins but a home cannot. Stop embarrassing yourselves people already think that Africa and Africans are "backward" and cannot "lead themselves". Ironically even a group of chimpanzees can better organise themselves and protect the jungle. no kidding! i saw it on National Geographic.
"Mindset". This is what africans and we mozambicans need, Benedito.
2 examples strike:
1. I worked as a medical doctor in Niassa Province and i found a strategy to efficiently and quickly screen tuberculosis patients in the communities. My district became, overnight, the best in this aspect. Interestingly enough, the idea needed no money to function properly. Nobody seemed to be interested to spread the idea throughout the country. And no magazine in Mozambique was interested to publish my articles about it. You know what? My work is being published by a medical journal in the UK, now that i live in Switzerland.
2. Norway discovered huge amounts of oil on it's shores in the 60's. It invested massively in public services. Many argue Norway is probably the richest country in this planet today.
Nigeria discovered vast amounts of oil on it's shores in the...yes, you guessed it right, the 60's. It invested massively in corruption.
La vision du Leadership pour l'Afrique
wow! wow!! wow!!! 👏👏👏
*claps in standing ovation*
Fascinating!
4:30 onwards, this is almost what's happening in the UK right now
Education is the main key for Africa !
African countries really need a fourth generation of leaders as defined by Fred Swaniker.
I would ask how long Mr Mandela would have lasted in jail in many of the black run African countries.
Mugabwe did not destroy Zimbabwe on his own, he had a lot of help, as did Amin, Bogasa, Mengistu etc.
Anybody reading this, you dont need to join an academy to be successful, keep that in mind! One thing you must always fight for is clarity of mind and there are many assaults with ELF waves on the population at the moment, we must unite and fight these mind control frequencies which can transmit feelings, voices etc.. that interfer with your own! Very alarming!
Je suis d'accord avec Fred...L'AFRIQUE a tout pour réussir et être la puissance mondiale.La jeune africaine déborde d'idées nouvelles et notre terre est très riche......
Great idea, Afrikans need to focus thier education more on practicals, making things for themselves, put clever minds to work on practicals, smart brains in food production/farming ,building more water bodies, harnessing the rivers better, making our own medicines, building our own machineary and transport net works rail and roads.we need more plumbers to build more sewage systems so cholera/ decentry stops, At the moment AFRIKA has far too many PHD holders in academics who have brought nothing but more corruption because they want to be paid for their certificates not what they can produce
Thank you very much sir i like the direction
Hope to identify leaders in my community too
That generation also needs to successfully give the finger to western nation (especially France), and continue relations with Oceanic,South American and Asian nations.
Truth, really thank you for this video.
So much said in just 13 minutes.
This guy has an amazingly round head.
holdmybeer A brain behind that massive forehead.
He's looking like a black African Asian.that head and features says a lot .with lots of brains to go with it.
With a head like dat he looks like he was made from clay lol.
GENERATION 4 - We heave work to do!
We need to be this generation that brings the change we want to see. Cliché but so so necessary.
This guy made lots of valid points and at the same time, over simplified Africa's leadership problems and solutions. There're lots of intricacies and external influences. The fabric of the socio-cultural and political system was torn apart by slavery, missionary and colonization. It will take lot more that simplistic talks like this to fix the continent.
Wonderful.
J'ai aimé
Thanks you
anything and everything is possible one needs to know problem, a vision to fix it, handwork to back it, and expecting no results doing work unconditionally for sake of god, creating a better world. so he will be proud of his sons. humanity has limitless potential do work for sake of god... this is key.
J'ai un bon espoir pour l'Afrique, je suis sûre que Kama peut évoluer et grandir comme elle le mérite si bien !
One the first things that should happen is to start educating Africans to curtail the size of African families. The population is growing faster than the economies can handle this growth & with new technologies, like Artificial Intelligence, the amount jobs will grow at a much slower rate & indeed change the way industries etc work. The power of the trade union must be brought under control & not hold economies to ransom. The biggest problem that I believe Africa needs to overcome is African Tribalism & corruption. It is all very well creating great leaders but how do they exercise the control when voters are brain washed through poor education. He used Nelson Mandela as a great leader but just look at what has & is happening in South Africa. I expect to be shouted down but leaders need educated people to lead & to follow that leader. The problem in Africa is greater than just creating good leaders although good leaders are needed!
I believe it's something in a people's genetic code.
Africa and India have had no end of
funding, help, infrastructure and aid from the west.
Vietnam, Hong Kong and Singapore got 0.01% of that help and ran with it.
Why is it that only Asians can progress with a helping hand and not self-destruct?
Is must be genetic.
Why do you always go around this videos and leave racist commment the same always.. your bullshit ive seen in many videos have been refuted over and over stop spamming!!
Its really baffling how ignorant a lot of people in the west are with respect to how the system works. it benefits the west more, to maintain Africa in this state, all the help you are talking about is simply a smoke screen, to fool the western population that all is done to help Africa. If the west really wants to help it should interfering in the continents affairs.
***** "Apparently" the avg IQ of Africans TODAY is 82 and for A.Americans it's 85..but how your raised up, education and sleep as well as genetics can effect IQ.Someone can do a few different IQ tests and get very different results in each one. My ethnic background is Nigerian, but born in the UK I believe IQ is in the 105-120 . Heard of the African model minority?
live1234561 the height of stupidity is to go on about a dumb iq test that was created by whites. and the african model minority myth is is dumb as the asian one. you have problems.
iwasborntobefly In America the model minority are now Asians but for a brief time they were African immigrants and their children..how is it a myth if there many statics to prove it. Furthermore where did I say I am going on about how the IQ was made by the whites.
Inspirational Talk
A leadership is beyond management. A leader of course does what a manager does, but thinks beyond the repetitive work that a manager does. A leader has a vision - an ability to think through time what a situation or country ought to be.
Unfortunately, Africa lacks those people who have the future of Africa at heart.
Many African presidents cannot be leaders, because thy are not elected by the people. They are imposed unto the masses through senseless coup d'états or through fraudulent elections .
The west ruined Africa and the middle east it's sad but true. Which is why we need to help, in a manner that is respectful of African main & middle eastern nations sovereignty rather than using our military to "help"
Zarbain sounds like a Victorian era explorer. We ruined Africa and the middle east by drawing the lines the way we did without regards to the ethnic conflicts of past.
3 yr contradiction amazing
so impressive.
Truly inspiring